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Drunk at the Gathering, Given to the Famed Courtesan Eoryuhwan (卽席醉贈名妓御留歡)卽席醉贈名妓御留歡
Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Latter Collection, Book 4 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.
豈唯吾輩鬢成斑。紅粉年來換舊顔。到處逢渠猶綠髮。長春應爲御留歡。
How should it be only we whose temples have turned grizzled? Those who wear red powder too change their old faces as the years go by. Wherever I go, when I meet that flower it is still black-haired, and its being spring forever must be because it is Eoryuhwan (御留歡).